Green Day Give The Best Advice on Blogging
When you take blogging so seriously, suddenly you start relating it to almost any other aspect in life. It’s funny (and scary at some moments).
That’s what happened to me when I was listening to Green Day’s song called “Time of Your Life”. One of the sentences that I immediately related to blogging was the last line in the first verse:
“Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don’t ask why
It’s not a question, but a lesson learned in time”
Cheesy I know, but true, so very true. Actually, if you isolate this line from the song context and relate it to success in blogging, Green Day have just given you the best answer to the most common question bloggers ask - “How do I succeed in blogging?”
See, no matter how good your questions or how detailed the answers you get for them are, nothing is worth as much as the experience you’ll gain by trial and error. People choose to ask and not to try because it’s free to ask, but luckily for you trying isn’t that expensive either (read: the biggest myth in the blogosphere).
Getting some help, using some advice and reading resourceful blogs is great, but in my humble opinion - making one step, doing one simple action is more important than reading 50 blogs.
Yes, these successful bloggers can inspire, touch and motivate you, but if you ask them they will tell you - the only one you can make difference to is yourself.
Allen it happens to me too. i look around me and relate everything to my blogging activity. i’ve even found a couple of topics to write about from just looking at the world around me. i guess you could say it’s like lovers: they see each other wherever they go (whether they are together or not).
and one more thing. i’ve personally experienced that while, indeed it’s important to get advice and research, you need to act upon your plans (even if only small bits), OTHERWISE, it’s very easy never ever to get started. i would dare say, sometimes you could get really scared of what’s ahead of you. you end analizing your position too much, where you are, what you’re trying to accomplish, what does it take, what are the costs and so on.
i am by no means an advocate of jumping head in first into everything, but rather, while doing the research and gaining knowledge, put it, little by little at first, into practice and don’t be affraid of mistakes.
cheers,
cosmin
p.s. thanx for your comment.